Tussen de Soep en de Feiten - Intersectionality: On Queerness and Migration
Let’s talk about intersectionality, queerness, and migration, leading up to Pride Brussels on the 16th of May. We do not start from a single perspective, but explore how queer identities and migration experiences intersect with, and are shaped by, context, power, and access to spaces.
Let’s talk about intersectionality, queerness, and migration, leading up to Pride Brussels on the 16th of May. We do not start from a single perspective, but explore how queer identities and migration experiences intersect with, and are shaped by, context, power, and access to spaces.
Across Europe, migration policies are becoming more strict, and rights are under growing pressure. This raises important questions: Who is given space? Under what conditions? And which identities are recognized? What does visibility mean in contexts that can also exclude?
Join us in reflecting on the complexity of queerness beyond a universal perspective. Take part in an open and critical dialogue with the diverse voices on the panel.
About the speakers
Belgian-Mexican-Colombian zinneke Majo is a freelance performer and teacher. Their performances focus on the body and expressiveness. The artist has a passion for variety and challenge, and works for audiences of all ages through cabaret, circus, dance, physical theatre, burlesque, and nightlife. They teach (Brussels Arts and Pole studio), coach (creative projects, Cirklabo Leuven), and guest teach (artistic support Personal Projects and Practice-Based Research, Circus and Performance bachelor, Fontys Academy of the Arts, Tilburg).
Sanele Mwelase, originally from South Africa, studied lyrical singing (University of Cape Town) and has won several international singing competitions, such as International Neue Stimmen (semi-finalist, 2022) and International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition (2023). They debuted at La Monnaie (revival of ‘Ali’, 2025) and received the Opera Europa Eva Kleinitz Scholarship. Sanele studies at Erasmushogeschool Brussel, School of Arts Royal Conservatory of Brussels, and is part of the MM Academy (La Monnaie).
Sherine Falasteen is a Palestinian community builder, space generator, and drag-activist. Their work focuses on creating open and respectful spaces for culture, identity, and community. They are passionate about bringing people together and giving underrepresented voices a louder platform. They are honored to speak on stageabout the intersections between culture, queerness, and belonging – life experiences that deserve visibility, dignity, and acknowledgement.
Fran C. Bracho (moderator) is a Belgo-Venezuelan art historian and socio-cultural worker who is active within various diaspora networks in Brussels, Flanders and Europe. She specializes in intersectional methodology and the history of ‘otherness’ — themes that form the core of her work and reflections.
In collaboration with De Munt/ La Monnaie, with vocals by Sanele.
Panelists: Sherine Falesteen (dragtivist/performer) - Majo (performer/teacher) - Sanele Mwelase (opera singer). Moderator: Fran C. Bracho (art historian/ social worker)
Muntpunt
Brussels
Conferences and conventions
Tussen de Soep en de Feiten - Intersectionality: On Queerness and Migration
« Tu sais là-contre, hein » Seul-en-scene dragking
Brasserie de la Mule
Schaerbeek
Theatre
« Tu sais là-contre, hein » Seul-en-scene dragking
Pride : récits queer
La Vénerie, Espace Delvaux – Centre Culturel de Watermael-Boitsfort
Watermael-Boitsfort
Festival
Pride : récits queer
I love dancefloor
La Vénerie, Espace Delvaux – Centre Culturel de Watermael-Boitsfort
Watermael-Boitsfort
Exhibitions
I love dancefloor
(Dés)incarner les stéréotypes – Crée ton alter ego (atelier drag)
Mouvance
Anderlecht
Courses and workshops
(Dés)incarner les stéréotypes – Crée ton alter ego (atelier drag)
Orian Barki & Meriem Bennani - Bouchra
The jackal Bouchra faces a wall of silence from her mother after coming out. A must-see animated feature that takes you from New York to Casablanca.
Bouchra is a jackal living in New York, where she works as a filmmaker. She navigates a life involving an ex-girlfriend, her parents and aunts in Casablanca, and the unexpected pull of a new fling with a bear. As she works on a film, Bouchra returns to the tender fault line between herself and her mother, Aicha, a cardiologist whose steady love is bruised by the silence that followed Bouchra’s coming out. This semi-autobiographical story is a marvel, written by visual artist Meriem Bennani, Orian Barki and Ayla Mrabet.
The film is based on conversations Bennani recorded with her family and friends in Morocco. Voices captured in cars, kitchens, and on phone calls are recreated by animated creatures whose softness allows difficult truths to slip through. In Barki and Bennani’s unique aesthetic, the playful world of animal-like characters mingles with documentary honesty.
Fiction becomes a journey toward maternal recognition and the search for a language of queerness; daughterhood a negotiation between duty and desire; storytelling a fragile attempt to repair what distance has frayed. In one of the most remarkable moving-image works of 2025, Bouchra opens a luminous space where a family cautiously begins to speak again.
Cinema Galeries
Brussels
Cinema
Orian Barki & Meriem Bennani - Bouchra
Laura Huertas Millán - Coca Orbits
In a lecture performance, Huertas Millán tells the story of how the coca plant is caught between the geopolitical “war on drugs” and colonial regimes of knowledge.
In the Western imagination, the coca plant is largely reduced to cocaine: a drug first industrialised in Europe and entangled with a violent system of extraction, prohibition, and control. But long before this history, coca held healing, ritual, and social significance for Indigenous communities in the Andes, knowledge persistently marginalised by colonial and scientific hegemony.
Since 2018, Colombian artist and filmmaker Laura Huertas Millán has engaged with this layered history. In Curanderxs—presented in an exhibition at argos—she imagined a speculative 17th-century world where femmes clandestinely distribute coca leaves to enslaved Indigenous workers under colonial rule. With this new lecture performance, Huertas Millán creates a hybrid form between live cinema, documentary and science fiction: coca appears as a travelling character, moving from the Andes into global systems of knowledge, control, and desire.
The legal status of the coca leaf is once again under debate at the United Nations, and the so-called “war on drugs” obscures deeper geopolitical and economic interests. But Coca Orbits insists that, more than an object of prohibition, coca is a lens through which we can ask the question—who produces knowledge?
argos centre for audiovisual arts
Brussels
Show
Laura Huertas Millán - Coca Orbits
Drag Queen Opera Quiz
Discover the most fascinating heroines of opera, with live music sparkling with sequins!
For the Pride Week in Brussels, the flamboyant drag queen and singer Élysée Moon invites you to an evening combining a fabulous opera quiz with live performances. Accompanied on the piano by Andrés Soler Castaño, she takes you on a light-hearted journey through the great female figures in the history of opera. Witches, monsters, seductresses and liberated heroines: much like the title role in our new production Medusa, these powerful, sometimes dangerous characters come to life through live-sung excerpts, anecdotes and interactive questions.
Could you recognise some of these heroines just by listening to an aria? Are they truly dangerous, or simply free? Whether you’re a hardcore opera lover or a curious newcomer, enjoy an evening of fun facts, deep emotions and just plain fun in our Fiocco Room!
La Monnaie
Brussels
Show
Drag Queen Opera Quiz
Apéro Arpentage - "Queers - Riposter à l'injure"
Amid the excitement of Pride Week, PAC and Tels Quels are joining forces to offer an opportunity for collective reflection and discussion around a fundamental question: how can we reclaim power over the words that have hurt us? How can we turn insults into forms of resistance?
Let’s explore together Julien Marsay’s book, Queer – Riposter à l’insulte.
Amid the excitement of Pride Week, PAC and Tels Quels are joining forces to offer an opportunity for collective reflection and discussion around a fundamental question: how can we reclaim power over the words that have hurt us? How can we transform insults into acts of resistance?
On Wednesday 13 May, we will gather in the welcoming setting of the Marsha P. Johnson Room at RainbowHouse Brussels to explore Julien Marsay’s book, Queer – Riposter à l’injure.
A teacher and researcher with a passion for questions of transmission, Julien Marsay examines how insults have historically been shaped as tools of marginalisation, while highlighting the ingenuity of LGBTQIA+ communities that have reclaimed these stigmas and turned them into symbols of resistance and solidarity.
This session will take the form of an ‘arpentage’, a popular education method originating in workers’ movements that enables a group to explore a book together in a participatory, critical, and alternative way.
It is not necessary to have read the book beforehand to fully take part in this experience.
We will provide all the necessary materials, as well as drinks, to ensure the event is as enjoyable as it is inspiring.
Doors open at 5:30 pm for a drink and an opportunity to get to know one another, before the arpentage begins at 6:00 pm sharp.
To help us prepare the workshop and refreshments as effectively as possible, registration is required.
PAC, Tels Quels, Julien Marsay
RainbowHouse - Salle Marsha P. Johnson
Brussels
Courses and workshops
Apéro Arpentage - "Queers - Riposter à l'injure"
Queer Echoes
To mark Belgian Pride, Queer Echoes is a show that brings to life the whispers, legends and stories of Brussels City Hall. Blending heritage with contemporary creativity, the artists of Cabaret Mademoiselle reveal, with poetry and boldness, the queer echoes that dwell within its walls.
Brussels City Hall: much more than just a building, it is a true symbol of the city and its history. Both a showcase for heritage and a seat of power, its walls harbour whispered legends and slumbering treasures, which the Cabaret Mademoiselle aims to adorn with glitter and poetry. As part of Belgian Pride, the artists blend the past and the present to pay tribute to our roots, but also to sow the seeds of the future – a future in which we will be ever prouder to stand tall, free and queer!
La Veuve (drag master of ceremonies)
Angèle Virago (pole dancer)
Krasna (drag artist)
Jordan (dancer)
Eve is sick of Adam (creature artist)
Hôtel de Ville de Bruxelles, Salle Gothique
Brussels
Show
Queer Echoes
Le Gay Bruxelles
In front of the Royal Palace at the entrance of the Royal park between the figures of the Spring and Summer
Brussels
Guided tours
Le Gay Bruxelles
Meet a Stranger at Bozar
Meet a Stranger – Pride Edition brings together people who do not yet know each other in an exhibition at Bozar. After completing a short quiz, you will — if selected — be matched with an art companion. Together, you experience the artworks and engage in conversations about beauty, identity and perspective.
Participation is only possible after completing the quiz and selection by Bozar.
Fill in a quiz and you might meet someone new at Bozar
Meet a Stranger is a unique concept that brings together people who do not yet know each other, right in the heart of an exhibition or concert. You complete a short quiz in advance, and our team carefully matches the ideal duos from a diverse group of participants.
The result? An encounter with a new art companion — a potential friend, or perhaps even more — as you experience art together in our beautiful Palace.
On 16 May, Meet a Stranger is entirely dedicated to Brussels Pride.
We challenge your ideas of beauty. Expect no traditional guided tour, but a shared experience filled with fresh perspectives and unexpected conversations, in a relaxed atmosphere.
Each edition is deliberately selective: only 20 to 30 participants are invited. This makes Meet a Stranger intimate, personal and truly special.
Centre for Fine Arts - Bozar
Brussels
Various
Meet a Stranger at Bozar
Fuse presents: Brussels Pride w/ LSDXOXO & Nene H
↘︎ Tickets via fuse.be/may-16
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www.fuse.be
↘︎ No camera flash - respect the vibe.
↘︎ We prohibit all forms of violence, racism, or sexism. If you feel or observe any such situation, please address it directly to our staff or security member.
→ ROOM 01 – Brussels Pride
LSDXOXO
Nene H
Vera Moro b2b Ricky Corazón
su:zy
Fuse
Brussels
Clubbing
Fuse presents: Brussels Pride w/ LSDXOXO & Nene H
Brussels Pride 2026
The Brussels Pride 2026 is a major event celebrating diversity, inclusion and LGBTQIA+ rights, bringing together hundreds of thousands of participants each year in the heart of Brussels.
The Brussels Pride 2026 is one of the largest engaged events in Belgium, celebrating diversity, inclusion and the defence of LGBTQIA+ rights.
Organised by Visit.Brussels and RainbowHouse Brussels, it gathers more than 200,000 participants every year in the streets of Brussels. The event features several highlights, including the Pride March, the Pride Village – an associative space showcasing over 120 organisations – as well as artistic and cultural stages across the city.
Beyond its festive dimension, Brussels Pride carries a strong message of awareness and mobilisation around rights, equality and visibility for LGBTQIA+ communities. It is a key moment of gathering, advocacy and celebration for both local and international audiences.
Visit.Brussels, RainbowHouse Brussels, LGBTQIA+ associations and partner organisations, artists and engaged speakers.
Various locations in the Brussels Capital Region
Brussels
Animations
Brussels Pride 2026
CAVE - UNDER THE RAINBOW (Brussels Pride 2026 XXL Edition)
Let’s come together to celebrate 30 years of Brussels Pride, a powerful moment of unity, diversity, and freedom. This year’s theme, “When Times Get Darker, We Shine Brighter,” reminds us of our strength and resilience. Under the same rainbow, we connect and celebrate who we are: prouder and brighter than ever.
On Saturday, 16th May, we come together to celebrate 30 years of Brussels Pride, a powerful milestone of unity, diversity, and freedom of expression.
This year’s theme, “When Times Get Darker, We Shine Brighter”, reminds us of our strength, resilience, and the light we create together. Under the same rainbow, we rise, we connect, and we celebrate who we are. We are louder, prouder, and brighter than ever.
At CAVE, everyone is welcome. We honour individuality and stand for mutual respect, openness, and positivity. This is your space to be unapologetically yourself, to feel safe, seen, and alive. Colourful, proud, and free.
Cave Brussels
Brussels
Clubbing
CAVE - UNDER THE RAINBOW (Brussels Pride 2026 XXL Edition)
The Devil made me do it
Pablo Bravo
Erik Raciks
The Confessions
Brussels
Clubbing
The Devil made me do it
Des preuves d'amour
La Vénerie, Espace Delvaux – Centre Culturel de Watermael-Boitsfort
Watermael-Boitsfort
Cinema
Des preuves d'amour
Janaina Leite - História do Olho
Leite explores the relationship between theatre and pornography in a reflection on intimacy – with live music, theatrical storytelling, and provocative scenes.
Inspired by Georges Bataille's scandalous novella of the same name, theatre maker Janaina Leite explores the relationship between theatre and pornography. The play follows the structure of the book to tell the story of three teenagers and their sexual escapades. Working with the Núcleo do Olho, Leite—one of the most intriguing artists in Brazilian theatre—recreates this dark fable as a magical, at times festive, experience.
In a fairy-tale setting, it shifts between the vulgar and the sublime, the mundane and the cosmic, the ordinary and the abysmal. Twelve performers—professional and amateur, some of them sex workers—take the audience on an intense, three-hour experience, with live music, theatrical storytelling, and live pornographic scenes. Leite and her cast enter into an intimate relationship with Bataille's work, inviting the audience to do the same.
Pornography becomes a theatrical form through which vital and destructive impulses are examined. História do Olho (“Story of the Eye”) explores taboos and questions our relationship with shame and lust, seeking collective insight and consent through performative transgression. Part subversive pornographic fairy tale, part radical adventure, it is a fundamentally tender and connecting piece of theatre that re-educates the gaze.
Les Halles de Schaerbeek
Schaerbeek
Festival
Janaina Leite - História do Olho
Cinéclub Goujonissimo : Pride !
Goujonissimo
Anderlecht
Cinema
Cinéclub Goujonissimo : Pride !
Créatures
La Vénerie / Ecuries
Watermael-Boitsfort
Concert
Créatures
Drag Brunch
With the return of fine weather, the Jardin Hospice invites you to discover its brunches in the heart of its hidden gardens, right in the centre of Brussels. With large tables, a relaxed atmosphere and lush surroundings, every weekend the venue becomes a vibrant hub for socialising and enjoyment. On May 24, Bikini The Third is taking over the Jardin with her Drag Brunch!
On 24 May, make way for a special edition. Bikini The Third, aka ‘Queen of Good Vibes’, takes the reins at the Jardin Hospice just one week after Brussels Pride. Get ready for the true Bikini’s Experience: a glamorous world of sequins, feathers and sky-high heels. A brunch that breaks the mould and becomes a living stage where anything can happen.
Brunch
Served as a buffet, brunch can be enjoyed at your own pace between 10am and 1.30pm. On the menu: a generous selection of savoury and sweet dishes – scrambled eggs, bacon, salmon, vegetarian options and treats to enjoy on the terrace or indoors, depending on the weather.
A convivial occasion, ideal for getting together with friends or family in a summery atmosphere.
Drag Brunch — Special Bikini Edition (24 May)
On the programme: spectacular drag performances, iconic lip-syncs to cult songs, fiery choreography, humour, audience interaction and boundless energy from start to finish. A lively, colourful, over-the-top and unapologetic show, where every moment is designed to give you an unforgettable brunch!
Designed to be accessible to everyone, the event will also feature a face painter for children to make it an even more fun and family-friendly experience.
Prices:
Drag Brunch: €40
(drinks not included, payment on site)
Reservations required via PassPass
Limited seating
In case of rain, the event will be held indoors
Grand Hospice
Brussels
Show
Drag Brunch
Carolina Bianchi - The Heart of Darkness
Bianchi presents three late-night talks – with Romeo Castellucci, Alice Diop and Edouard Louis – where conversations can unfold in the softness of a shared moment at night.
Literature and poetry are central fields of research in Carolina Bianchi’s work. In her previous play, The Brotherhood (Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2025), she first introduces herself as an author, then as a director, and occasionally as a performer. Across her creations—marked by a thorough exploration of theatrical form—she remains in constant dialogue with writers: Dante’s journey from Inferno to Paradiso, Sarah Kane, Emily Dickinson, and T.S. Eliot, who viewed theatre as “the ideal medium for poetry”. Conversation with other artists has become a core element of her practice, a way to reveal the ongoing processes of contamination that shape each voice. For this edition, Bianchi presents a series of three nocturnal conversations: Romeo Castellucci on Dante, Alice Diop and Édouard Louis on writing. In a late-night talk format, she opens a malleable, intimate space to drift through conversation with each guest. Apart from the interview as a performative and solid form of self-presentation, Bianchi enters a more vulnerable register and the softness of a shared moment at night. Host and guest in armchairs with an audience gathered around, for a series of talks that lasts only one season and three episodes.
Théâtre Les Tanneurs
Brussels
Show
Carolina Bianchi - The Heart of Darkness
Bienvenue dans le monde des femmes
La Vénerie, Espace Delvaux – Centre Culturel de Watermael-Boitsfort
Watermael-Boitsfort
Cinema
Bienvenue dans le monde des femmes
Unique en son genre
La Vénerie, Espace Delvaux – Centre Culturel de Watermael-Boitsfort
Watermael-Boitsfort
Animations
Unique en son genre
Drag Brunch with Bikini
What could be better than brunch?
A drag brunch.
And what could be even better than a drag brunch?
A drag brunch with mimosas!
La Tricoterie invites you to enjoy a Sunday bursting with colour, humour and glamour. Forget your hangovers or the Sunday blues: Bikini The Third is waiting for you at a legendary drag brunch!
ON THE PROGRAMME:
An all-you-can-eat brunch (savoury, sweet, homemade, local & delicious)
Mimosas and ethical drinks to quench your thirst
Drag performances, full of glamour, madness and energy
Incredible challenges to bring out the star in you
A festive, inclusive and 100% feel-good atmosphere
Date: 31/05/2026
Time: 11am to 2pm (show starts at 12pm)
Venue: Le Salon de la Tricoterie
Prices:
- The Classic: €40 (brunch + show)
- The Bikini’s Experience: €55 (brunch + show + 3 mimosas)
Are you celebrating a special occasion (birthday, hen party, etc.)? Let us know (by email: reservations@tricoterie.be) and we’ll make sure to celebrate it with you! Book your tickets now – Bikini is waiting for you!
La Tricoterie
Saint-Gilles
Show
Drag Brunch with Bikini
Clubnight by Liaison x Kunty Kompany: DICTATOR’S FUNERAL
There are moments in the fight against injustice when everything feels overwhelming, the systems, the pressure, the exhaustion. And then there are moments when we allow ourselves to imagine something else: old structures loosening, control fading, the atmosphere becoming lighter. This imagination is not naïve, it is necessary. It gives space to breathe, to create, to reinvent.Think of the outfit that gives you confidence, worn with the quiet certainty that all of this will eventually pass. Think of the dance floor as a place where weight dissolves, where bodies move without permission, where we rehearse the world we deserve.In these moments, softness becomes strength, presence becomes resistance, and joy becomes a way forward.Kunty Kompany is a collective of queer people of colour reclaiming space within nightlife. Rooted in community, care, and expression, they bring together sound, style, and energy to create environments where people can exist freely, celebrate themselves, and connect on their own terms.Liaison Music is a gathering of queer migrant musicians working to build independent, safe spaces for newly arrived artists. The collective offers support, guidance, and community to help navigate a new environment and find footing within the local scene.
AMI, Henry Keller, Prncjdg, Lucrezia, Anano, DJ ANTWAN, DJ HOLINESS
Ancienne Belgique
Brussels
Concert
Clubnight by Liaison x Kunty Kompany: DICTATOR’S FUNERAL
Ciné-club : Queer
Bibliothèque Jacqueline Harpman
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
Cinema
Ciné-club : Queer
